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1) Betrayed
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World War II espionage drama about the Dutch underground.
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Frank Chambers (John Garfield) is a drifter who lands at a roadside gas station owned by jolly old Nick Smith (Cecil Kellaway) and his young, blonde wife Cora (Lana Turner). In a matter of minutes, Frank and Cora fall in love, and plot to murder Nick. Eventually wedding bells ring, the body count rises, and the gavel slams-of course, nothing ever goes as planned. Part of what makes the film noir is watching the characters react, as their plans are...
3) Homecoming
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A self-centered society doctor goes to war and finds himself changed by it, and falls deeply in love with a nurse, despite having a wife waiting for him at home.
8) Johnny Eager
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Johnny, a paroled gangster pretending to be reformed, seduces the district attorney's daughter for revenge before actually falling in love with her.
9) Honky tonk
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"Con artist Candy Johnson has been run out of town after town. Then he got wise. He went out and got a town of his own: Yellow Creek, Nevada. The title honkey tonk is the Square Deal Saloon, where Candy and poker-playing sidekick Sniper cut cards -- but not the liquor. The colorful townfolk include a Justice of the Peace who's good pals with John Barleycorn, a fiery do-gooder, a long-suffering dance hall girl and a law-unto-himself sheriff"--Container....
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"Welcome to New York's posh Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Your suite is waiting, and so are romance, glamour, comedy and drama played with great flair by an all-star cast. A remake of Grand Hotel updated to the waning days of WWII, [it] follows the fortunes of a lonely movie star, an on-the-make stenographer, a wounded flyer, a war correspondent, a wheeler-dealer and a gossip columnist whose lives crisscross over two days of martinis, mistaken identities...
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1934 version: "A struggling widow and her daughter take in a Black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way"--IMDb.com.
1959 version: "An aspiring white actress takes in an African-American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white"--IMDb.com.
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Blood Alley: A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local visitors, winds up transporting an entire Chinese village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.
The sea chase: As World War II begins, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich tries to get his ship back to Germany through a gauntlet of Allied warships.
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"Pearl Harbor is about to be bombed and crack reporter Jonny Davis has just returned from the Pacific. At his old rooming house, Davis meets fellow reporter Paula Lane, a girl he once knew who never got over him. Now, she's involved with Davis's clean-cut younger brother Kirk. But Paula wasn't meant to settle, and Jonny's passion for her is equally fervent. Hoping he'll forget her, Jonny persuades Paula to take an assignment in Indochina. But she...
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Taking an assumed name to hide his real identity, Adam rents a house from Rosemary Howard, the only single woman in a paradise filled with lonely housewives and workaholic husbands. There's trouble in Paradise when Adam begins advising the wives on their sex lives while their husbands grow increasingly jealous and indignant.
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The story of two widows and their troubled daughters. In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living an emotionally fruitless existence.
18) Peyton Place
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Studio classic volume 16
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Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor. Beneath the town's placid God-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets.
19) Suspense
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Radio Spirits proudly presents 10 hours of Suspense broadcasts from the series' first decade on the air, featuring some of its classic voices, including Agnes Moorehead and Joseph Kearns as "The Man In Black." Joining the regulars at the Suspense microphone were an impressive array of Hollywood stars--from the masculine voices of Peter Lorre and Edward G. Robinson, to the female voices of Lillian Gish, Lana Turner, and child star Margaret O'Brien....
20) Cass Timberlane
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Virginia Marshland is a vivacious young woman from the wrong side of the tracks, whose rebellious ways fascinate small town widowed judge Cass Timberlane. He's lonely enough to believe that his stuffy friends will accept her, and their marriage. But Virginia is too spirited by play the part of a dutiful society wife for long, and soon becomes tempted by a friend of Timberlane's, a man about town who seems to offer the sophistication and adventure...
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